Learning and teaching experiences in multicultural and multilinguistic contexts

Abstract

The paper entitled Experiences on foreign languages learning and teaching in multicultural and multilinguistic contexts comprises the author reflections about her experience as foreign language learner first, and as a teacher of them in both monolingual and multicultural and multilingual contexts afterwards. The author based her research on the historical logical method within the Education Comparative method to analyze the object of the study and support her proposition, based on theoretical points of view to establish her viewpoints regarding the advantages and disadvantages of studying and teaching foreign languages both in the sociocultural environment of the target language, and in contexts that are detached from the culture of the language been learned and taught. The objective of this analysis is to make a call to support language learning projects in contexts that are proper of the target language, under such modalities that can interest educative institutions in favor of the internationalization of multicultural and multilinguistic programs.